Installing RabbitMQ Server on Windows is straightforward and should only take a few miniutes to complete the install and configure. In the below setup we will install RabbitMQ on a Windows 7 client that we will then further use for some example Visual Basic.net.

Firstly RabbitMQ has a dependency on Erlang so we need to download either the 32 or 64bit version from www.erlang.org/download first.

Once downloaded run through the Erlang setup and accept all the defaults. Next we need to download and install RabbitMQ for Windows from www.rabbitmq.com/download

When running the RabbitMQ setup you will get prompted to allow two firewall exceptions, select the network profile you want to allow the exception for and then click on allow.

If everything has gone successfully you should now see a RabbitMQ Server all programs menu option and also a RabbitMQ windows service.

Now that RabbitMQ is installed we can install the managment plugin which is done via the RabbitMQ command line. Navigate to all programs and then run the “RabbitMQ Command Prompt” as administrator, one the command prompt opens navigate to the sbin directory by running the following CD %PROGRAMFILES%\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server_2.7.1\sbin\

Next we need to install the management plugin by running the following command rabbitmq-plugins.bat enable rabbitmq_management

Then we need to uninstall and reinstall the RabbitMQ service for the plugin to become active, we do this by running the following three commands: